Serbian (was: Parlez-vous Kazakh)

Isaac Penzev scripsit:

> I know <sad grin> How long shall they rape the lang so voilently? Quousque
> tandem?
(!)

I was looking over the constitution of Montenegro yesterday (in Latin
script) in an unsuccessful attempt to determine if, indeed, Latin
and Cyrillic scripts are considered equally valid in Montenegro -- my
ability to read Serbian is essentially zero, but how hard could it be
to find things resembling "Latin" and "Cyrillic"?   Well, no luck --
and was rather startled to see a perfectly intelligible section header
"Non bis in idem", presumably about what is called in Anglo-American law
"double jeopardy".

This was in an attempt to find evidence (as opposed to bare assertions,
of which I find plenty) on the general question of whether Cyrillic
is clearly the default Serbian script, or whether it is necessary (as
with Mongolian and a few other languages) to say that there simply is
no default.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side
with the giants on whose shoulders we stand."
        --Gerald Holton